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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912
v.dailytrojan.com
April 6. 2005
Vol. CXLV1, No. 51
Arrest made in student death
GPSS votes in all of next year’s administration
Housing woes for community
Almost exactly one year after Maxwell Hazlett was murdered near his apartment police say they have found his killer.
By KRISTIN MAYER
Staff Writer
Hazlett
Police arrested a suspect in the shooting death of USC student Maxwell Hazlett. which took place downtown on April 3.2004.
Angel Cruz was arrested March 25 after a lengthy chain of interviews led the Los Angeles Police Department to him.
"We pursued a lot of different investigative techniques, and it finally just recently came together," said LAPD Detective Jeff Breuer in the ftampart Detective Homicide Unit.
The case has been filed with the district attorney’s office.
The defense requested that the arraignment, usually held within two days of arrest, be postponed until next week.
"We believe that the motive was robbery,” Breuer said, citing personal property missing from Hazlett’s body.
The arrest came nearly a year after Hazlett’s body was found.
"We find these people. We solve our cases,” Breuer said. “It’s an evolution as you work these cases, and one piece of evidence tends to lead you to another piece of evidence."
LAPD arrested three individuals in connection to the case, but only one person was responsible for killing Hazlett, Breuer said. All three are still in police custody.
"I feel very relieved, but at the same time, it brings all of the original feelings back," said Maxwell Hazlett’s older sister Ginnie Hazlett.
Marc Mund, Maxwell Hazlett’s roommate from Hazlett’s last year at USC, said he had not expected LAPD to find a suspect after a year.
“I’m very surprised. I didn’t really
expect that," Mund said. “Obviously, I'm happy to hear this."
Maxwell Hazlett was dropped off by friend Jonathan Pong at a Chevron gas station at Washington Boulevard and Figueroa Street on Saturday, April 3,2004, at about 1:30 a.m. after a night out at Ivar, a club in Hollywood.
He then reportedly insisted that he could walk home to his apartment while searching for an open liquor store.
Maxwell Hazlett and Mund lived
in Promenade Towers at 2nd .and Figueroa streets, about two miles from the Chevron station.
Hazlett's body was found with multiple gunshot wounds Saturday morning at Emerald Drive and 2nd Street, less than half a mile from his apartment.
When he did not make it home, his roommate became concerned and filed a missing persons report, Breuer said.
Remembering Hazlett
“Max was probably the funniest person I've ever met," Ginnie Hazlett said. “He had an incredible sense of
wit,
Mund remembers his roommate as a social, generous and easygoing guy who loved learning.
“He was a very loving person, Always had a joke to crack," Mund said.
Mund and Maxwell Hazlett had been good friends since meeting freshman year.
Maxwell Hazlett grew up with his family in New Zealand and Hawaii, an experience that his only sister said drew them close.
“Because we grew up in two different cultures, it was a special experience we both shared," Ginnie Hazlett
said. “It sort of strengthened the bond even more."
Ginnie Hazlett said her relationship with her younger brother had deepened in the last five years while they both lived in California.
“I considered him one of my closest friends," said Ginnie Hazlett, who is currently working in public relations in San Francisco. “1 don't have any regrets or unresolved things because we were so close.”
An economics major as a freshman, Maxwell Hazlett had shifted to a Chinese major and German minor by his junior year.
I see Hazlett page 111
Photos by Kathenne Beck l Daily Trojan
One year ago. (Left) Maxwell Hazlett was dropped off at the Chevron gas station located at Washington Blvd. and Figueroa St. the morning he was killed. (Center) Hazlett insisted that he walk to his apartment at Promenade Towers. (Right) His body was found at the intersection of Emerald and 2nd streets.
Lo wins president while running unopposed, Oates-Ulrich wins vice-president.
By BONNIE SCHINDLER
Staff Writer
The Graduate and Professional Student Senate voted in its new officers during the Monday night meeting.
The current vice president of GPSS, Ronalee Lo. ran unopposed, and will replace current president Robin Toblin in the one-year position.
Lo said she looks forward to the induction of GPSS’s new strategic plan tided F.A.C.E., which stands for Funding, Advocacy, Community and Education.
"With the implementation of these I see OPSS page 11I
rat bites.
The play proposed the presence of the student community only worsens the plight of community members.
Students acted out how landlords wait until conditions get so bad that their tenants move out, whereupon they raise the rent and lease apartments to USC students who have failed to receive housing from the university.
More than 50 students, community members and university administrators attended the Campus and Community Forum on Housing in the United University Church.
The forum was atypical in the aspect that it was an interactive play written and performed by the 15 students in professor Brent Blair’s theater class, Theater in the Community."
The play was interactive in that after all 14 scenes had been per-
I see Housing, page 10 I
INDEX
Islam is often misinterpreted, these USC students say. 7
This DT columnist says baseball is overrated. 4
News Digest-.____2 Lifestyle___7
Opinions-----4 Sport*------------lt
WEATHER
Today:
Mostly sunny. High 79, low 55. Tomorrow:
Partly cloudy. High 71, low 52
By ANNA JEWETT
Staff Writer
A housing forum held on Tuesday focused on how the high demand for student housing affects the surrounding community, proposing that it forces
many community members to live in squalor.
The production identified housing issues and the squalid living conditions in which some members of the community live. This included problems such as sewage leaking into the carpet, lead poisoning and
Finding solutions. Students act out a mock housing conflict at the housing forum Tuesday at United University Church.

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912
v.dailytrojan.com
April 6. 2005
Vol. CXLV1, No. 51
Arrest made in student death
GPSS votes in all of next year’s administration
Housing woes for community
Almost exactly one year after Maxwell Hazlett was murdered near his apartment police say they have found his killer.
By KRISTIN MAYER
Staff Writer
Hazlett
Police arrested a suspect in the shooting death of USC student Maxwell Hazlett. which took place downtown on April 3.2004.
Angel Cruz was arrested March 25 after a lengthy chain of interviews led the Los Angeles Police Department to him.
"We pursued a lot of different investigative techniques, and it finally just recently came together," said LAPD Detective Jeff Breuer in the ftampart Detective Homicide Unit.
The case has been filed with the district attorney’s office.
The defense requested that the arraignment, usually held within two days of arrest, be postponed until next week.
"We believe that the motive was robbery,” Breuer said, citing personal property missing from Hazlett’s body.
The arrest came nearly a year after Hazlett’s body was found.
"We find these people. We solve our cases,” Breuer said. “It’s an evolution as you work these cases, and one piece of evidence tends to lead you to another piece of evidence."
LAPD arrested three individuals in connection to the case, but only one person was responsible for killing Hazlett, Breuer said. All three are still in police custody.
"I feel very relieved, but at the same time, it brings all of the original feelings back," said Maxwell Hazlett’s older sister Ginnie Hazlett.
Marc Mund, Maxwell Hazlett’s roommate from Hazlett’s last year at USC, said he had not expected LAPD to find a suspect after a year.
“I’m very surprised. I didn’t really
expect that," Mund said. “Obviously, I'm happy to hear this."
Maxwell Hazlett was dropped off by friend Jonathan Pong at a Chevron gas station at Washington Boulevard and Figueroa Street on Saturday, April 3,2004, at about 1:30 a.m. after a night out at Ivar, a club in Hollywood.
He then reportedly insisted that he could walk home to his apartment while searching for an open liquor store.
Maxwell Hazlett and Mund lived
in Promenade Towers at 2nd .and Figueroa streets, about two miles from the Chevron station.
Hazlett's body was found with multiple gunshot wounds Saturday morning at Emerald Drive and 2nd Street, less than half a mile from his apartment.
When he did not make it home, his roommate became concerned and filed a missing persons report, Breuer said.
Remembering Hazlett
“Max was probably the funniest person I've ever met," Ginnie Hazlett said. “He had an incredible sense of
wit,
Mund remembers his roommate as a social, generous and easygoing guy who loved learning.
“He was a very loving person, Always had a joke to crack," Mund said.
Mund and Maxwell Hazlett had been good friends since meeting freshman year.
Maxwell Hazlett grew up with his family in New Zealand and Hawaii, an experience that his only sister said drew them close.
“Because we grew up in two different cultures, it was a special experience we both shared," Ginnie Hazlett
said. “It sort of strengthened the bond even more."
Ginnie Hazlett said her relationship with her younger brother had deepened in the last five years while they both lived in California.
“I considered him one of my closest friends," said Ginnie Hazlett, who is currently working in public relations in San Francisco. “1 don't have any regrets or unresolved things because we were so close.”
An economics major as a freshman, Maxwell Hazlett had shifted to a Chinese major and German minor by his junior year.
I see Hazlett page 111
Photos by Kathenne Beck l Daily Trojan
One year ago. (Left) Maxwell Hazlett was dropped off at the Chevron gas station located at Washington Blvd. and Figueroa St. the morning he was killed. (Center) Hazlett insisted that he walk to his apartment at Promenade Towers. (Right) His body was found at the intersection of Emerald and 2nd streets.
Lo wins president while running unopposed, Oates-Ulrich wins vice-president.
By BONNIE SCHINDLER
Staff Writer
The Graduate and Professional Student Senate voted in its new officers during the Monday night meeting.
The current vice president of GPSS, Ronalee Lo. ran unopposed, and will replace current president Robin Toblin in the one-year position.
Lo said she looks forward to the induction of GPSS’s new strategic plan tided F.A.C.E., which stands for Funding, Advocacy, Community and Education.
"With the implementation of these I see OPSS page 11I
rat bites.
The play proposed the presence of the student community only worsens the plight of community members.
Students acted out how landlords wait until conditions get so bad that their tenants move out, whereupon they raise the rent and lease apartments to USC students who have failed to receive housing from the university.
More than 50 students, community members and university administrators attended the Campus and Community Forum on Housing in the United University Church.
The forum was atypical in the aspect that it was an interactive play written and performed by the 15 students in professor Brent Blair’s theater class, Theater in the Community."
The play was interactive in that after all 14 scenes had been per-
I see Housing, page 10 I
INDEX
Islam is often misinterpreted, these USC students say. 7
This DT columnist says baseball is overrated. 4
News Digest-.____2 Lifestyle___7
Opinions-----4 Sport*------------lt
WEATHER
Today:
Mostly sunny. High 79, low 55. Tomorrow:
Partly cloudy. High 71, low 52
By ANNA JEWETT
Staff Writer
A housing forum held on Tuesday focused on how the high demand for student housing affects the surrounding community, proposing that it forces
many community members to live in squalor.
The production identified housing issues and the squalid living conditions in which some members of the community live. This included problems such as sewage leaking into the carpet, lead poisoning and
Finding solutions. Students act out a mock housing conflict at the housing forum Tuesday at United University Church.